On tonight’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival menu: Best of the Best, Burger Bash

From The Q to the ‘Bleau: After hosting thousands oceanside at Moët Hennessy’s The Q and The Q After Dark, FIU student volunteers spent all day Friday, Feb. 24, prepping for two special events: Wine Spectator’s Best of the Best, sponsored by Bank America, and Amstel Light’s Burger Bash, presented by Allen Brothers Steaks and Diet Pepsi and hosted by Rachael Ray.

The FIU News team was there to catch these pics of our students hard at work getting ready to host 3,000 guests at Friday night’s Best of the Best.

Student Patricia Aguilar, assistant event coordinator for Best of the Best, communicates with the chefs via radio.

Eighty culinary assistants (student volunteers) helped prepare food for the event's 45 chef stations.

On the left, FIU senior Janee Brown helps set up for the night's silent auction of wine.

Attendees can expect 89 wine stations plus a silent auction of spectacular wines.

The Fontainebleau Miami Beach will host 3,000 guests at Wine Spectator's Best of the Best, sponsored by Bank America.